Showing posts with label Octavia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Octavia. Show all posts

Monday, 19 October 2015

Developing Octavia: Statues in the Temple



Quick designs for the statues in Octavia's temple, which shall be the subject of my interior shot. The idea was that people in Octavia worship the mountains, believing themselves to be dependent on them for survival. The statues stand over an alter in the temple, with the heart suspended between them.

Thursday, 15 October 2015

Developing Octavia: Houses and Other Buildings



Some more rough ideas for buildings and structures in Octavia, this time looking at various designs for homes and other buildings. Each building has a firm, wooden base with wooden poles and beams built onto it to create the shape of the building, before a material like sack cloth is fitted over the poles, making a tent-like structure. I still like the idea of the inhabitants of Octavia sewing designs into the cloth, like decorative graffiti on a wall, and I will look more into this idea later.

Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Developing Octavia: People


A few quick ideas for what the people of Octavia might look like. They might not feature in my project, but it was something on my mind that I wanted to draw out quickly. I like the idea of access to materials for clothes being limited, so large amounts of one material is made or acquired through trade, and distributed to people to do with as they wish. As a result, many people end up wearing the same colours, just worn in different ways.

Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Developing Octavia


 Thinking about larger buildings and structures that would exist in Octavia. Here are some rough designs for a palace, gardens, a temple and a school.

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Monday, 5 October 2015

Building Thumbnails: Octavia


Some ideas for the houses and structures that may exist in Octavia, probably my favourite city so far. I imagined the buildings to have solid wooden bases, with a wooden structure inside to hold the shape of the material put over the top. Ropes are wrapped around and attached to the ropes and chains above, sometimes hooks are used. When drawing no.3, I was thinking about how the people of Octavia would access food, and imagined more solid platforms that would be made into spaces to grow vegetables.

Invisible Cities: Octavia

For Octavia, I was inspired by the abstracts I created in our digital painting class, so I used similar colours for the thumbnails, and the polygonal lasso tool to create the mountains and complicated mass of ropes, strings and chains that hold Octavia in place.